Pick.



PA'TENTED' JULY 31; 1906.

w. G. FINE.

. PICK.

AP PLIOATION FILED JAN. 3, 1906.

. INVENTOR A TTOR/VE 1 5 WILLIAM GEORGE FINE, OF PRINCETON, INDIANA.

PICK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil d January 3, 1906. Serial No. 294,459.

To a-Zl wi l/omit may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM GEORGE FINE,

a citiz'engof theUnited States, residing at Princeton, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Pick, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to picks, and has for an object to provide a pick embodying new and improved features of economy, convenience, durability, and efliciency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pick having separate head and points of improved form, whereby the nature of the point may be almost instantly changed as made necessary or desirable by change of work or material worked upon.

' It is well known that in some occupations as, for instance, miningpicks provided with different points or points differently inclined are used by the same miner at difierent timesas, for instance, forstraight cutting or side work, for working overhead, and for working on the bottom-and to provide for the several uses it is necessary for the operator to carry with him severalpicks embodying the several points.

It is an object of this invention to provide a pick having a common head provided with sockets proportioned to seat pick-points of the several forms interchangeably, so that it is necessary for a workman to carry only one head and handle and several small and c0mparatively light points for the various kinds of work likely to be encountered and to form such points with two working ends each, so

that in case of accident to or wear of one point it may be almost instantly reversed and present a sharp point.

With thesefand other objects in view the present invention consistsin the combina tion and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may-be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of the invention. I

. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of the improved pick-head with points seated. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the pick-head, taken on a plan perpendicular to the plane of the sec' tionin of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a view of the improve pick in side elevation. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the pick, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional 'view of the improved pick, taken migwayof the ends andon line 5 5 of Figs. 1 an 2.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings. v

In its preferred embodiment the improved pick forming the subject-matter of this application'comprises a head 10, provided with a transverse handle-receiving eye 11, projected entirely through the head and having ears 12 at each side of the opening and extending laterally to a point. end of the head is formed a socket 13, tapered at its outer end and with parallel sides at its inner end, as at 14. The sections 14 of the sockets are continued by a in-passage 15 transecting the handle-eye. ithin the eye Patented July 31, I906.

Within each is inserted a handle 16, having the recesses 17 formed upon opposite sidesand proportioned 'to receive and seat the ears 12 and prevent the pick from sliding downwardly upon the handle. To secure the head rigidly upon'the handle, the pin 18 is inserted into one of the sockets 1314 and driven through the pinpassage 15 and through a properlyepositioned opening in the. handle 16.

Within the tapered sockets 13 are inserted 7 points 19 and 20, similarly tapered and, with convenient article reversely and alternately delivered upon opposite sides of the points,

whereu on the points may be reversed or replaced y others. The formation of the inner end of the socket with parallel sides, as at 14, permits the'introduction of points bent,

bro ken,-or upset from use, to bringinto operative position a sharpened point of the desired inclination.

The manner of fastening the handle by use of the pin 18 makes it practicable to secure a handle of either wood or metal of the same form and m the same manner.

Having thus described the invention What is claimed is 1. In a pick, the combination with a head having sockets in opposite portions thereof and a straight passage connecting the sockets, said head having a handle-receiving eye intersecting the passage; of a handle Within the eye, a retaining-pin mounted Within the passage and extending across the eye and through the handle, and points detachably mounted Within the sockets, said points adapted to hold the pin against longitudinal displacement.

2-. In a pick, the combination with a head haying sockets in opposite portions thereof and a straight passage connecting the sock WILLIAM GEORGE FINE.

Witnesses:

JosHUA B. BROWN, JOHN ANDERSON. 

